The Disabled Child

The Disabled Child
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9780472903030
ISBN-13 : 0472903039
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Disabled Child by : Amanda Apgar

Download or read book The Disabled Child written by Amanda Apgar and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in another world, without a roadmap, without community, and without narratives to make sense of their experiences. The Disabled Child: Memoirs of a Normal Future tracks the narratives that have emerged from the community of parent-memoirists who, since the 1980s, have written in resistance of their children’s exclusion from culture. Though the disabilities represented in the genre are diverse, the memoirs share a number of remarkable similarities; they are generally written by white, heterosexual, middle or upper-middle class, ablebodied parents, and they depict narratives in which the disabled child overcomes barriers to a normal childhood and adulthood. Apgar demonstrates that in the process of telling these stories, which recuperate their children as productive members of society, parental memoirists write their children into dominant cultural narratives about gender, race, and class. By reinforcing and buying into these norms, Apgar argues, “special needs” parental memoirs reinforce ableism at the same time that they’re writing against it.


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